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Cissus, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Ata 
_ A delicate, scandent, perennial species, a native of Suma- 
tra, Flowers in February ; seeds ripen in November. 
Siem scandent, slender, flat like a piece of tape. Tendrils 
simple. Leaves ternate. Leaflets petiolate, lanceclate, re- 
motely serrate, acuminate, smooth on both sides, from three 
to six inches long, and from one to one and a half broad, 
Petioles shorter than the leaflets, channelled, smooth. | Sti- 
pules triangularly ovate, acute, smooth, Cymes axillary, so- 
litary, nearly round, small, and shorter than the petioles, 
Flowers small, greenish yellow, male on one plant and female 
on another. 
»' Mate. Calyz, corol and stamina as in the genus. Pistil 
no other than a small abortive roundish body on the content 
a four-lobed gland. . 
» Femave. Calyx and corol as in the male. Gevia als 
two-celled, with two seeds in each, Style none. . Stigma 
large, obscurely four-lobed, and somewhat lacerated, Berries 
spherical, smooth, size of a pea, white, one or two-seeded, 
when cut or bruised very fetid, Perisperm conform to the 
seed. Embryo lodged in the lower half of the perisperm, 
Seinen wien round, . Radicle enon; inferior. 
elun sa .) 
8. carnosa, mg sp. 7 ad. Willd. i, 658. 
Stem flattened, perennial. Leaves petioled, ternate ; leaf. 
leis oval, serrate. Berries four-seeded. 
Tsjori-Valli, Rheed, Mal. vii. p. 17. t. 9. 
-- Folium Causonis, Rumph. Amb, v. p. 450. f. t. 166, A. 
-. Teling. Kanapa-tiga. ay Pi 
_ Is common in beteweay and forests. wianloaiige time the rang 
geason. ai 
_ Stem soba at like a a piece of it cistcne taawes: 
taabboes fathoms; young shoots villous, | Tendrils leaf- 
opposed, from two to three-cleft, Leaves. sivas: petioled, 
ternate, Leaflets oval, grossly serrate, downy, from two to 
three:inches long. Petioles round, downy. Stipules oblong, 
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